- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jul 23, 2026
- Salary
- $195,000–$273,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Firmware Engineer, Platform
Job description
Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.
Job responsibilities
- Own the common runtime and libraries every firmware team consumes — logging, telemetry, IPC, configuration — on MCU-based systems and Linux targets
- Own the build system and cross-compile toolchain: fast, reproducible, hermetic builds across every target we ship, and the SDK other teams consume
- Design and maintain the interfaces other teams build on, keeping them stable as the platform evolves underneath
- Solve the hard, ambiguous problems that surface where the platform meets its consumer teams
- Drive resource trade-offs — compute, memory, bandwidth — when subsystems compete for the same budget
- Raise the firmware engineering bar through patterns, code review, and mentoring